Davud Ismail

Davud Ismail (1760-1827) was Governor of Acre under the Ottoman Empire during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Biography
Davud Ismail was born in Damascus Eyalet, Ottoman Empire in 1760 to a Sunni Muslim Arab family, and he became a civil servant in Syria. Ismail was appointed Governor of Acre, commanding the military garrison stationed at the old fortress. Ismail defended Acre when the French Army under Napoleon Bonaparte besieged the city, and he fled the city as the French conquered it. Ismail would return to governing the city after the French withdrawal.